161 Lafayette Avenue

Brooklyn · Fort Greene, NY 11238

161 Lafayette Avenue is a 9-apartment building in Fort Greene, built in 1930, managed by Brooklyn Property Managers. The City has 27 open housing-code violations on file for it, about 3.0 per apartment, in a neighborhood where most buildings have none on record (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

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Units: 9
Year built: 1930
Neighborhood: Fort Greene
Borough: Brooklyn

This building’s record with the City

Complaints tenants filed with 311, and repairs a City inspector has asked for. Most repairs are routine maintenance. Both describe the building rather than the people in it, and often predate the current management.

1.8/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

0tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year

27open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 3.0 per apartment

Immediately hazardous: 0
Hazardous: 27
Non-hazardous: 0

What the open repairs are about

Stairs, floors and ceilings10
Smoke and CO alarms5
Other repairs3
Doors, windows and locks2
Electrical2
Leaks, damp or mould2

Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026

The company that manages it, elsewhere

Brooklyn Property Managers manages 4 other buildings we cover, holding 48 apartments.

open violations: 19open violations
immediately hazardous: 5immediately hazardous
311 complaints: 10311 complaints
per apartment: 0.4per apartment

The company’s record across its other buildings, not this building’s. A company can run one well and another badly, and these figures often predate the current management. (HPD and 311, as of 28 September 2026.)

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